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Tough questions about what's next after the Keith capital commutation in Ohio

By Douglas A. Berman

Andrew Cohen has an interesting follow-up commentary to this past week's commutation by the Governor of Ohio of the death sentence that had been facing Kevin Keith despite his claims of innocence (basics here). The commentary is titled "Death Row Reprieve: Does Ohio Also Owe Kevin Keith a New Trial?", and here is one of many interesting excerpts: Convicted murderer Kevin Keith could look at the week's dramatic developments in his life in one of two ways. He could consider himself very lucky that Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland commuted his capital sentence to life in prison without parole. Or he could consider himself still accursed that he'll likely remain in prison anyway for the rest of his natural days despite his claim that he did not murder two adults and a four-year-old child -- family members of an alleged police drug informant -- in 1994...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 05, 2010 (boomark / email).